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I was asked to read a paper on the effect of the Irish Rebellion on the Protestant Minority to Birmingham Irish Heritage group and was fortunate to quote the recent research done by the late and esteemed Prof Hart on the subject. I have some detailed accounts of the terror with family letters and how it affected my granfather and my grand uncle (victims of arson attack and the demolition of their home and their escape and potential murder of their women and children) also the nightly assault on Ballyseedy Castle from which Major Blennerhassett escaped. He sucumbed subsequenttly to stomach injury due to violent physical assaults and from which he eventually died. My thanks to Bill Jehan who gave me copies of these letters from the British Goverment archives which I will be pleased to send on. I should point out that none of these relatives were directly or indirectly involved with pro British hostilities against the IRA or other pro nationalist militia. They were targets on two accounts, they were know to be loyal to the Crown and also because they were of Protestant Ascendancy stock.

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